Track sprint star is after national records in 2016

She was the biggest name at the meet and was expected to cruise to victory yesterday in the women's 200m.

Singapore sprint queen Veronica Shanti Pereira did just that on the final day of the Institute-Varsity-Poly (IVP) Games at a wet Nanyang Polytechnic, even if her time of 24.68sec was pedestrian by her standards.

Shanti is far from her peak, although her winning time yesterday did equal the IVP record.

The 19-year-old, who rocked the nation when she won the 200m gold at the South-east Asia (SEA) Games on home soil last year with a new national record of 23.60, is just getting her feet wet for 2016.

Speaking to The New Paper after her race yesterday, Shanti said: "All the meets that I'm going for (this year), I'm going to try and lower my personal bests as much as I can.

"Training volume and intensity have increased quite a bit since after the World Championships last year.